i read the entire article and the writer seems a bit biased in favor of the jetboilsome people like them, but i don't think much of them. i took an opertunity to play around with one that a fellow paddler had along on a trip this past spring. it will not simmer. compared to the stuff we build, and kits we assemble, and use, the jetboil is a bit heavey. (i can pack two pots , a frypan, and a stove at less weight penalty).even his testing is suspect. he needs to get some times recorded out to the ten minute mark. even the pocket rocket will boil two cups on about 7 grams of fuel if you're patient. on the Giga Stove; i've gotten way better test results with mine than he showed.

I've never used one so can not comment one way or the other. I just put it out there as a link to info on the jetboil. The test were done by someone in Japan, not by him. The stove was designed to rapidly boil water. I wonder why it would not simmer for you if you turned it waaaay down? Sounds like the 80% stated efficiency might be somewhat accurate. I think it would be nice to have in the trunk on long trips but I'm not shelling out $80 for one.

"Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up".....Thomas Edison

Tony uses a jetboil and seems to really like it. I think I would prefer it over the Caldera cone for the simplicity of it. (I have not tried either one ) It looks like it was well thought out before going to market.

the jetboil that i messed around with would not simmer. no flame adjustment at all. i could spin the knob all i wanted and it would show no change in output. on the same day i played with a MSR Reactor stove. same game. no simmer.

DarenN wrote:the jetboil that i messed around with would not simmer. no flame adjustment at all. i could spin the knob all i wanted and it would show no change in output. on the same day i played with a MSR Reactor stove. same game. no simmer.

DarenN wrote:the jetboil that i messed around with would not simmer. no flame adjustment at all. i could spin the knob all i wanted and it would show no change in output. on the same day i played with a MSR Reactor stove. same game. no simmer.